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Book Synopsis

Explores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalism



Trade Review

'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture'

-- Michael Hardt, author of 'The Subversive 70s'

'Drawing on nearly fifty years of writing and teaching about the media and making films, Michael Chanan presents us with a series overlapping histories of different media technologies, which is both authoritative and original'

-- Julian Petley, Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Brunel University, London

'Michael Chanan's brilliant synthesis, replete with fascinating detail, both boggles the mind and deeply educates'

-- Claudia Gorbman, Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma

Table of Contents

Series Preface
Preface
1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic
2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production
3. Cultural Commodification
4. Countercurrents
5. From Analog to Digital
6. Creativity Reconsidered
Bibliography
Notes

From Printing to Streaming

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      Publisher Pluto Press
      Published 20 October 2022
      ISBN-13 9780745340968
      978-0745340968
      ISBN-10 0745340962
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      Art: financial aspects Far-left political ideologies and movements Not Just Books Stationery

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Explores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalism



      Trade Review

      'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture'

      -- Michael Hardt, author of 'The Subversive 70s'

      'Drawing on nearly fifty years of writing and teaching about the media and making films, Michael Chanan presents us with a series overlapping histories of different media technologies, which is both authoritative and original'

      -- Julian Petley, Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Brunel University, London

      'Michael Chanan's brilliant synthesis, replete with fascinating detail, both boggles the mind and deeply educates'

      -- Claudia Gorbman, Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma

      Table of Contents

      Series Preface
      Preface
      1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic
      2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production
      3. Cultural Commodification
      4. Countercurrents
      5. From Analog to Digital
      6. Creativity Reconsidered
      Bibliography
      Notes

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